Black and Latinx Transgender Solidarity Day, 11/21/22 4:00-6:00 PM N119
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-latinx-transgender-solidarity-day-tickets-429823623027
Black and Latinx Transgender Solidarity Day, 11/21/22 4:00-6:00 PM N119
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-latinx-transgender-solidarity-day-tickets-429823623027
Considering the STC’s definition of technical communication, communicating with technology is one characteristic of technical communication. The proliferation of reading on screens therefore an explosion of technical communication. While today the Kindle and other e-ink readers dominate long-form reading using technology, there is a long history of improving how we read text on screens so that it was more comfortable, portable, and interactive. One example of that is Sony’s Data Discman or Electronic Book Player originally launched in the west in 1991.
Another example is Voyager Company’s Expanded Books, also launched in 1991, which were distributed on floppy disks and designed for Apple Macintosh computers–especially the Macintosh Portable and subsequent PowerBook line of Mac laptops. In addition to reading the book on a computer screen, Expanded Books included bookmarking, searching, and note taking features. Some Expanded Books, such as the edition of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, included audio files for the sounds of the various dinosaurs in the novel (this was before Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film adaptation).
For this week’s class:
Greetings, all!
I hope that you’ve been doing well since our class last met.
I wanted to remind you of a few things (scroll through past posts for directions of each–this message only serves to put things on your radar).